And the Hey, what's up. Jason Gattis here. Welcome back to the smart couple podcast.

For smart folks, successful people that for whatever reason are struggling in your relationships.

Maybe it's with your wife, your husband, your business partner, a friend, a family member. And remember, this is geared towards folks in a long-term intimate relationship like marriage. So today we are

going to talk about the entire point of marriage. Why bother? Why do we even even care why do people still do this if 50% of the people get a divorce

and if there's more and more sort of criticism in the media around monogamy.

Why bother?

And are people, like when you look around at married people in your life,

are they happy? Do they look fulfilled? Do they

look empowered? Do they look psyched? I know a lot of people do a decent job of

presenting that on Facebook with their chipper status updates and when you

meet them at the grocery store, hey, how is everything?

Great, how are you?

Great, hey, things are fine.

And if you have the job I have, you look under the hood every day of people's relationship and most of the time it's hurting most of the time I'm dealing with people that are in a lot of pain and and in my experience this is most people. So we learn to put on a show and put on a

front in life and present our best self. Our, uh, I just call that a mask.

It's not really my best self.

My best self as actually hiding behind the scenes most of my life.

But I learned to wear a mask, you know, like you.

Because that's what gets me love and acceptance.

I don't get rejected. I don't get kicked out of the community.

I don't get my feelings hurt if I constantly act like things are fine.

And if you're listening to this podcast though, you're smarter than that

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